Hello Daniel,
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:40:07AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
On 10/02/16 22:33, Max Mehl wrote:
# Daniel Pocock [10.02.2016 @ 21:12]:
As you noted, the first step has to be some kind of hard facts collection. Do you have some rough ideas how to do that? Ask a small peer group for their experiences in detail, or make a broader survey?
There seem to be a number of universities that have free software (or dare I say it, "open source") research groups looking at various metrics from the free software world. Maybe reaching out to some of them and suggest it is a worthwhile thing to study, see if any have an interest?
Other researchers (e.g. in social sciences, anthropology) may also be interested http://lwn.net/Articles/425897/
Thanks for this! I've been pushing off a more elaborated reply for weeks now and just created a ticket in the "action" tracker [1] as I don't foresee that I will be able to actually work on it in the near future. Hopefully someone else is interested to pick it up in the meantime.
Greetings and thanks again!
Guido
[1] https://action.fsfe.org/ticket/59